Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
National Games Round Up: Mallakhambh heroes take Maharashtra to second place on Medal Table behind Services
Gujarat’s 10-year-old Shauryajit Khaire creates history with bronze medal
Maharashtra’s Mallakhambh stars, led by the reigning queen Rupali Sunil Gangwane, swept three of the five gold at stake on Monday to take the State to the second position on the 36th National Games medal table, ahead of Haryana for the first time in several days of competition.
The windfall has increased Maharashtra’s gold-medal tally to 34, leaving Haryana behind with 32 after a long and intense battle between the two giants.
Significantly, with a total of 126 medals, including 36 silver and 56 bronze, Maharashtra have the largest haul in the Games. Services continue to lead with 53 gold, 33 silver and 29 bronze but have a lower aggregate of 115 medals. Haryana’s 32 gold, 30 silver and 38 bronze made them the third to touch the 100-medal mark.
In the final rush for medals, Gujarat’s boy wonder, 10-year-old Shauryajit Khaire, created history, becoming the youngest medallist of the Games when he clinched the bronze medal in Pole Mallakhamb.
The hosts had another good day, with Pooja Patel teaming up with Komal Makwana to clinch her second Yogasana gold medal. They also picked up the Men’s and Women’s singles bronze medals in Soft Tennis to take their own medal tally to an impressive 43, including 13 gold, 12 silver and 18 bronze with two more days of competition left.
Maha’s Rupali Gangawane dished out a clinical performance to claim her third gold medal at the stunning Sanskardham Sports Academy facility in Godhavi. She took top honours in the Women’s Rope competition  today, to add to the Individual All-Around gold and Team gold she had won on Sunday.
She also won a bronze in the Pole competition to be among the handful of multiple medal winners in the Games. Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi Gupta took the Pole with 9.10 points.
Akshay Prakash Taral, the men’s All-Around champion, added a second gold to his collection by winning the Rope competition with 8.95 points. His team-mate Shubhankar Vinay Khawle scored 9.20 points on the Pole to win the other gold for Maharashtra, preventing a Madhya Pradesh sweep.
There was massive disappointment for the Maharashtra Men’s Hockey team who were unable to make the most of their pre-match favourites tag against Uttar Pradesh in the semifinals at the Maj. Dhyan Chand Stadium in Rajkot. Maharashtra rallied from three goals down to take the match into the penalty shootout but ran out of luck there.
Karnataka will take on Uttar Pradesh in the final. They struck in the first and the fourth quarters to pull off a convincing 3-1 win over Haryana in the other semifinal.
Abharan Sudev converted Karnataka’s first penalty corner in the fourth minute but Haryana hit back through Kohinoor Preet Singh in the 17th minute. After a barren third quarter, Karnataka scored through Nikkin Thimmaiah  and Harish Mutagar  to seal their place in the summit clash.
The Softball competition at the IIT Gandhinagar is also heading for a climax, with the Maharashtra Men’s and Punjab Women’s teams booking their place in the respective Grand Finals by beating squads from Chhattisgarh in the play-off games.
The Chhattisgarh teams will now feature in the qualifiers against second-placed finishers in the pools.
Andhra Pradesh who beat Delhi 4-0 in the men’s eliminator and Kerala, who edged out Maharashtra 4-3 in the women’s match will both hope to stun Chhattisgarh and earn themselves a crack at the gold medal in the respective Grand Finals.
Back on the Sabarmati, it was heartening to watch the experienced Rajina Kiro hold her own in the Women’s K1 500m sprint against Kaushal Nandini Thakur  and Pooja .
Ragasri Manogar Babu  won the Soft Tennis Women’s singles gold with an easy win over Aadhya Tiwari . The Tamil Nadu player had to put her best foot forward in beating the home State’s Hetvee Chaudhari 1-4, 2-4, 4-1, 4-1, 1-4, 9-7, 7-0 in the semifinals. The Men’s singles crown went to Jay Meena .
Reigning National champion Sumit Kundu, former world championship medalist Jamuna Boro and Asian champion Sanjeet earned berths in the Boxing medal rounds as the quarterfinal stage was completed this evening at the Mahatma Mandir complex in Gandhinagar.
Sumit, a quarterfinalist at the World championships, beat Haryana’s Ankit Khatana in the Men’s 75kg bout while Sanjeet used his long reach in the 92kg category to make short work of Delhi’s Harsh Kaushik.
Assam’s Jamuna Boro registered dominant victory against Sapna Sharma  in the 57kg class. Battling high fever for the past three days, Jamuna did not show any signs of fatigue in the ring as she registered a 5-0 win.
The results :
Canoeing and Kayaking
Men
K4 1000m Sprint: 1. Ajatasatru Sharma, S Albert Raj, Bhumjit Singh and Gyanjit Arambam  1:34.495; 2. Vishal Dangi, Akshit Baroi, Himanshu Tandon and Rimson Mairembam  1:36.422; 3. Harsh Kumar, Mahendra Singh, Kunal and Ningthoujam Nivash Singh  1:389.168.
Women
C2 500m Sprint: 1. Meghna Pradeep and Akshaya Sunil  2:16.816; 2. Kaveri Dimar and Shivani Verma  2:16.896; 2. Rashmita Sahoo and Sachima Kerketta  2:33.506.
K1 500m Sprint: 1. Rajina Kiro  2:08.652; 2. Kaushal Nandini Thakur  2:09.186; 3. Pooja  2:12.926.
K2 500m Sprint: 1. Fulmani Xaxa and Oinam Bindya Devi  2:07.443; 2. Jyoti and Pooja  2:09.446; 3. Rajina Kiro and Sandhya Kispota  2:10.806.
K4 500m Sprint: 1. Aleena Biju, Sreelakshmi Jayaprakash, Treesa Jacob and G Parvathi  1:56.259; 2. Dipali, Suahma Verma, Dimita Devi and Swati Sahu  1:57.859; 3. Fulmani Xaxa, Oinam Bidya Devi, Pukharambam Roji Devi and Shruti Choughule  1:58.932.
Football:
Women: Manipur beat Odisha 2-0 . Bronze medal play-off: Tamil Nadu beat Assam 5-1 .
Judo
Men
Over 100kg class: Yash Ghanghas  beat Sunil . Bronze medals: Deepak Sharma  and Dhyan Singh .
Women
48kg class: Swaita Tokas  beat L Sanatombi Devi . Bronze medals: Taivitha Tariyal  and Malaprabha Jadhav .
Mallakhambh
Men
All-Around : 1. Akshay Prakash Taral  26.85 points; 2. Shubhankar Vinay Khawale  26.70; 3. Chandrashekhar Chauhan  26.35.
Hanging: 1. Pranav Kori  and M Hemachandran  8.90 points; 3. Aditya Raje Kundariya  8.75.
Pole: 1,. Shubhankar Vinay Khawle  9.20 points; 2. Deepak Waman Shinde  9.15; 3. Shauryajit Khaire  9.10.
Rope: 1. Akshay Prakash Taral  8.95 points; 2. Rajveer Pawar  8.90; 3. Chandrashekhar Chauhan  8.85.
Women
Team: 1. Maharashtra 88.75 points; 2, Madhya Pradesh 83.10; 3. Chhattisgarh 80.10.
All-Around: 1. Rupali Sunil Gangawane  17.80 points; 2. Janhavi Suresh Jadhav  17.30; 3. Sidhi Gupta  17.20.
Rope: 1. Rupali Sunil Gangawane  9.25 points; 2. Sidhi Gupta  9.20; 3. Neha Sunil Kshirasagar  9.05.
Pole: 1. Sidhi Gupta  9.10 points; 2. Janhavi Suresh Jadhav  9.00; 3. Rupali Sunil Gangawane  8.60.
Soft Tennis
Men’s Singles: Jay Meena  beat Jitender Mehlda  4-0, 4-2, 4-0, 1-4, 4-2. Bronze medals: Rohit Dhiman  and beat Aniket Chirag Patel .
Women’s Singles: Ragasri Manogar Babu  beat Aadhya Tiwari  4-2, 4-2, 4-1, 4-0. Bronze medals: Nikita Bishnoi  and Hetvee Chaudhari .
Wushu
Men Daoshu and Gunshu: 1. Shashi Tamang ; 2. Rohit Jadhav ; 3. Balwant Singh .
Women Daoshu and Gunshu: 1. Mercy Ngaimong ; 2. Wangkheirakpam Ningthibi Devi ; 3. Bhooraksha Dubey .
Yogasana
Men
Rhythmic Pair: 1. Aditya Prakash Jangam and Mohammed Firoz Sheik  127.48 points; 2. Manan Narendra Kasliwal and Om Prakash Varadai  125.28; 3. Harshal Vilas Chute and Vaibhav Waman Shrirame  124.10.
Women
Rhythmic Pair: 1. Pooja Patel and Komal Makwana  122.16 points; 2. Kalyani Vilas Chute and Chhakuli Bansilal Selokar  120.36; 3. H Kushi and CA Pranamya  117.78.
Other results
Hockey
Men’s semifinals: Uttar Pradesh beat Maharashtra 3-3  3-2 in penalty shoot-out; Karnataka beat Haryana 3-1 .
Softball
Men
Final : Maharashtra beat Chhattisgarh 9-0; Qualifier : Andhra Pradesh beat Delhi 4-0.
Women
Final : Punjab beat Chhattisgarh 7-0. Qualifier : Kerala beat Maharashtra 4-3.